Sentence examples for evil to explain from inspiring English sources

The president himself frequently uses the image of confronting evil to explain the pre-emptive turn in American foreign policy, and to force Europeans to make choices that, in their view, are far less stark than the one that confronted the world in World War II.

She used the phrase "the banality of evil" to explain why he did terrible things - he was not very intelligent, followed orders mechanistically, liked to belong to the Nazi state machinery, and had no malice against the Jews.

Early designs were often described with terms like evil or diabolical to explain what happened when a rear-engine car entered a turn at too high a speed.

This means that while Christian theology has to contend with a "problem of evil", Buddhists need to explain why life is not only worthwhile but even, at times, enjoyable.

The trouble is that a view of Murdoch as a cunning and evil Svengali helps to explain how he held so many people in thrall, while a view of him as a chippy and acquisitive man with a mummy as a wife just makes the whole world look foolish for having been taken in for such a long time.

Do some or all gods come into being, or is there a god who has always existed?[58] Soul is said to be the cause of all motions and, thus, "of good things and bad" (896D6), and Plato suggests the hypothesis of an evil soul precisely to explain bad things (896E).

My friend and I were both pretty drunk and I thought it was the lesser of two evils between having to explain to him halfway through that it was just random drunken sex and definitely not a love thing, or pretending not to hear and faking it so we could get it over with.

Often the underlying idea seems to be that attempting to explain evil signals a failure to understand the nature of evil: a kind of category mistake, for evil is simply not the sort of thing that can be explained.

If Islam is really complete evil and its followers are by deduction also evil then something has to explain as to why the world started to face problems since early 1970s.

And yet to try to explain evil, as with brain scans or social conditions, smacks intolerably of absolving it.

From a wide variety of approaches and views, one particularly important question has come into the foreground: Is it possible to explain evil at all?